Consciousness and modality: On the possible preserved visual consciousness in blindsight subjects

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1855-1859

  Overgaard, Morten ^a,b   Grünbaum, Thor ^c  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Blindsight; Consciousness; Introspection; Modality; PAS; Subjective reports; Visual perception

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; CONSCIOUSNESS; HUMAN; VISION; VISUAL CONSCIOUSNESS; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

HUMANS; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 80054870341     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2011.08.016     Document Type: Article

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